Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

sumpsimus \SUHMP-suh-muhs\, noun:
  1. Adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus).
  2. A person who is obstinate or zealous about such strict correctness (opposed to mumpsimus).
Like its counterpart mumpsimus, sumpsimus comes from to a story about an illiterate priest. In this case, sumpsimus refers to the opposite practice as mumpsimus.
 
Tiger blood
  • The substance flowing through the veins of Charlie Sheen & other bad ass rock stars that allows them to survive epic partying (copious amounts of alcohol and illicit controlled substances like cocaine, etc) that would kill normal people.
Charlie Sheen-"The last time I took drugs I probably took more than anybody could survive, I was banging 7 gram rocks and and finishing them because that's how I roll!"
Interviewer-"How do you survive that??"
CS-"'Cause I'm me... I have a different brain, a different heart, ya' know, I got tiger blood man"

Fuckit List
  • A list of people, male or female, you want to have sexual intercourse with before you die.
G-Mo: Bob has an awesome Fuckit List:
1. Kate Beckinsale
2. Megan Fox
3. Gal Gadot
4. Olga Kurlyenko
5. Margot Robbie

History
  • Great Fire of Rome: a conflagration that destroyed Rome began; Nero (who probably didn't really fiddle while Rome burned) blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecutions of them (65)
  • secret ballot: new voting method was introduced in Britain (1872)
  • Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco led an uprising in Spanish North Africa, beginning a war that lasted for three years; at the war's end, Franco became dictator of Spain until his death in 1975 (1936)
  • FDR: the 32nd POTUS was nominated for an unprecedented third term in office (1940) 
    Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy (a married man) killed Mary Jo Kopechne after leaving a party with her at 11:15 PM. After submerging his car, he escaped, leaving her in it at Chappaquiddick after a night of drinking. She was alive for at least two hours in the submerged car. He didn't report the accident and didn't surrender to the police until the car and her body were already discovered. He ended up getting away with vehicular homicide (1969)
  • Nadia Comaneci: 14-year-old Romanian earned the first perfect 10 in Olympics gymnastics (1976)
Birthdays
  • Gilbert White 1720
  • William Makepeace Thackeray 1811
  • Vidkum Quisling 1887
  • Chill Willis 1903
  • S.I. Hayakawa 1906
  • Clifford Odetts 1906
  • Lou Busch 1910
  • Hume Cronyn 1911
  • Harriet Nelson 1912
  • Marvin Miller 1913
  • Richard "Red" Skelton 1913
  • Nelson Mandela 1918 - President of South Africa
  • John Glenn 1921 - Astronaut
  • Dick Button 1929
  • Screamin' Jay Hawkins 1929
  • 'Papa Dee' Allen (War) 1931
  • Tenley Albright 1935
  • Hunter S. Thompson 1937
  • Brian Auger (Mahavishnu Players) 1939
  • Dion DiMucci (Dion and the Belmonts) 1939
  • James Brolin 1940
  • Lonnie Mack (Memphis) 1941
  • Martha Reeves (Martha and the Vandellas) 1941
  • Robin McDonald (Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas) 1943
  • Kurt Mann 1947
  • Glenn Hughes 1950
  • Ricky Skaggs 1954 - Singer
  • Terry Chambers (XTC) 1955
  • Nigel Twist (The Alarm) 1958
  • Audrey Landers 1959
  • Elizabeth McGovern 1961
  • Jack Irons (Pearl Jam) 1962
  • John Herman (Widespread Panic) 1962
  • Vin Diesel 1967 - Actor
  • Tony Fagenson (Eve 6) 1978
  • Jason Weaver 1979
  • Kristen Bell 1980

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